"battery" in inglés with examples - Collocation dictionary inglés
- The 78th Highlanders took a wrong turning, but were able to capture a rebel battery near the Qaisarbagh palace, before finding their way back to the main force.
- While steaming up the Canton River, two armed boats from John Hancock were fired upon by rebel batteries which their own cannon promptly silenced.
- Hannah, quite worn out, lay down on the sofa at the bed's foot and fell fast asleep, Mr. Laurence marched to and fro in the parlor, feeling that he would rather face a rebel battery than Mrs. March's countenance as she entered.
- The rebel batteries threw several sheila over and around them, but did no damage, the command being protected by a slight elevation in front.
- They went to work at once, and notwithstanding the daily shellings from a rebel battery planted upon the point of Lookout mountain, soon had their log houses complete.
- On the twenty-first the rebel batteries were very annoying.
- On that day it moved on to Guinea Station, where the regiment was deployed as skirmishers, and advanced two miles, capturing a number of prisoners, and routing a rebel battery.
- Mr. McCord's story begins at West Point as the class of 1861 learns that, as an officer reports, "the rebel batteries in Charleston have opened fire on the flag."
- Here the army, without disembarking, witnessed the cannonading between the gun-boats and the rebel batteries at Grand Gulf.
- When a rebel battery took the 17th under fire, Osterhaus ordered the regiment to assault the ridge line on the right side of the Rossville Gap to clear out rebel sharpshooters protecting the battery.
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